Web browsers have looked and worked basically the same way for more than a decade, to the point where they all have roughly the same features, in the same places, and are often even built around the same engine. But just about every company in tech suddenly wants to change them, all spurred by AI and the possibility of controlling one of the most important surfaces on any device. And that means not just controlling them through ownership and being able to choose the default settings \u2014 but, in this case, quite literally controlling your cursor and browsing the web for you.<\/p>\n
This week on The Vergecast, we\u2019re talking about ChatGPT Atlas, the onslaught of new AI browsers over the past few months, and what it means for where AI goes next. After that, we turn to Samsung\u2019s Galaxy XR and whether anyone wants to put AI devices on their face. And then, it\u2019s time to talk about Warner Bros. Discovery putting itself up for sale \u2014 and the long, embarrassing history of companies acquiring Warner Bros. just to realize what a mess they\u2019ve created and selling it again a few years later. We\u2019re taking bets on who\u2019ll be next.<\/p>\n
Finally, everyone\u2019s favorite podcast within a podcast, Brendan Carr is a Dummy, makes its triumphant return. And then we close things out with a packed Lightning Round. We\u2019re talking the Friend protest, GM removing CarPlay, the AWS outage, OpenAI\u2019s controversial legal strategy, Pitchfork\u2019s pivot to comments, and the future of the Xbox.<\/p>\n
If you want to read more about the stories we discussed, check out the links below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Web browsers have looked and worked basically the same way for more than a decade, to the point…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2294,74,2295],"class_list":["post-248871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-podcasts","tag-technology","tag-vergecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}